Platinum hostesses Makeovers for Double Circles in three categories – Cabaret Club Czar tips

Overview

We all know that the Yakuza series is a serious crime drama, thus nothing more natural than managing a cabaret club and playing princess maker with a bunch of hostesses. Even more naturally, I spent a lot of time tinkering and making notes on how to use the makeover function to dress up the platinum hostesses in manners that maximized their status. Here you have the fruits of my labour and there are also links to a spreadsheet on Google Drive so you can filter it and find stuff more easily. Oh, I also added details on how to unlock Gandhara’s videos and the locations of the telephone cards, how to farm cash, level up the legend styles, as well as the correct answers in the special training for each platinum hostess and other details like how to recruit each hostess, tips and other things.

Google Spreadsheets link

Yakuza 0 Cabaret Club Czar – Platinum hostesses Makeovers for Double Circles in three categories

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Yakuza 0 – Platinum Hostesses Special Training

Platinum Hostesses Special Training
(Right answers for your practice dates with each platinum hostess)

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Introduction and tips for the Cabaret Czar minigame

To those starting it, the game is rather simple and it’s basically just a matter of matching the correct hostesses with the correct customers. I won’t get into specifics, as I think it’s very simple and easy, but you get to select 8 girls for each shift, then select an area you want to target. The minigame consists of matching each girl to the customer’s preferences, answering the girls when they ask you for help or the tab and then send the customer off.

The more you open for bussiness the more fans you get. Then, once you gather enough fans, you get more customers when you open for bussiness and unlock new items according to a rank system. Each time you achieve a certain number of total fans, you rank up and get new accessories. That is pretty self explanatory, the more you play the better your girls get, the more customers come in when you open up and the more money you make.

Also, each girl has several statuses and can level up by tending to customers, platinum hostesses go up to level 40 and usually max out nearly all statuses when they do. The other girls, bronze, silver and gold, go up to level 30. You will see images below of all girls maxed out, so you can compare them. Basically, the more they serve customers the better they get but their own ranking, from bronze to platinum, determines what are their initial statuses and limits.

There are also the atributes, sexy, beauty, cute and funny. Those can only be improved by the platinum hostesses via the makeover mechanic, where you dress them differently to do it. All other girls will have static atributes, the lowest being a blue X, afterward there is a green triangle, a circle and the maximum level are the pink double circles.

Customers have preferences, verbi gratia, some will ask for a girl that is funny and is good at Party. If they are poorer, they will compromise with lower statuses and attribute girls, but the richest customers won’t be satisfied. Thankfuly, the game hints at what type of girl you should use when you target each area and then you get to choose what girl to send to a customer, where the expression and colour tells you what they think of each girl.

The game uses the same coloured smiley and angry faces as the girls condition indicator and the customer’s mood. Try getting every customer to a very happy mood (wide violet/pink smile) by matching them with girls they like and answering the girls’ calls. The customers go from angry to very happy, and each time you succesfuly answer a girl’s call quickly the customer’s mood improves while the girl recovers HP.

If the customer’s mood is higher, because you put the right girl for them and/or answered the requests quickly, the customer will spend more cash and do it faster. That also fills your fever meter on the bottom right faster. Activating this fever meter will automatically send one or two customers into fever mode, except those already in fever mode or ready to leave the club. That makes them go from any mood right into a ecstatic level of happiness where they spend more cash and the girls don’t get tired so quickly, a level of happiness exclusive to fever mode and when a customer agrees to get an extension.

Below you have two images:

On the left, my cast on duty and every girl has a violet coloured smile face showing her condition to be maxed.
On the right, an image of the cabaret club map with the fans count and each club area.

The main tips I have are:

1. Never put girls on duty if their condition isn’t maxed out.
2. You must grind if you want to maximize your chances of beating the rival clubs and unlock accessories for the makeovers I listed below. I suggest only challenging rival clubs when you have at least double their fans in their own area;
3. When grinding, gift the customers as they leave for more fans. (Or reward girls if you want to level them);
4. During rival battles, compliment the girls to keep their conditions maxed out, avoid using cash.
5. Don’t rely on the bussiness minigames to make cash, even on Legendary. Get a lot Staminan Royale’s and a knife, then use CP to make the Mr. Shakedown enemies richer through the deep pockets upgrade and spam heat actions against them in combat.
   (Beforehand, you might wanna buy the drink that hurts you and then visit each restaurant to consume everything they offer. Each time you “complete a restaurant”, you get 1 CP and it’s one of the easiest way to get CP quickly. Another easy way to get CP is to get into fights around town and defeat enemies using the different combat styles and weaponry.)

You will get the hang of it from playing. Just try to mix your roster up a bit, try to pick girls that cover what others lack too.

Below you have a more complete guide if you want to remember what each hand signal means and/or need a more in depth analysis of the minigame’s mechanics:
Cabaret Club Hand Signals (and other things to be a czar) By benjy
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Hostesses and how to unlock them

There are 30 hostesses and, not counting the starting girls, 4 (or 5) ways to recruit them:

1. Defeat rival clubs to unlock Platinum Hostesses, the focus of this guide and the ones you get the most interaction with.
   Fun fact: Apart from Yuki, they are all Japanese Adult Videos Actress. Id est, they are Japanese porn stars that were at the top of the industry during the game’s development.

2. Complete substories around Sotenbori as Majima and then recruit the girls outside the club in the alley between the club and the CP shrine;
3. Exchange Completion Points at the shrine for girls, you need about 37 Completion Points to get all girls and alternative decors for the club. You get CPs by completing tasks on your Completion List, which you can check on the pause menu and have been previously mentioned;
4. Recruit them around Sotenbori, there is map below that I got from IGN, where they will ask for a gift you can buy at the Le March store near the Pawn Shop.

   (Alternatively, three of these recruitable girls, Harumi, Kirara and Ume, can be recruited by collecting information from people around Sotenbori as Majima before going to Club Odyssey in Chapter 3, just talk to people around town and you will even get an achievement from it when you return to the Grand.

   The first is a man on the Bishamon Bridge near the Grand, the second is a girl in the Bunzaemon Outdoor Mall near the Le March Store and the eastern bridge, the final are two salary men talking in the east end of Shofukucho South near the cab and phone booth.)

Platinum Hostesses (You unlock them by defeating rival clubs)

1. Yuki – Starting Hostesss
2. Chika – Defeat Club Venus
3. Mana – Defeat Club Moon
4. Ai – Defeat Club Mars
5. Hibiki – Defeat Club Mercury
6. Saki – Defeat Club Jupiter

Gold Hostesses (Complete substories around Sotenbori or exchange Completion Points at the Shrine)

1. Ms. Isobe – Complete “Disco Dancing Goddess”
2. Etsuko – Complete “The Obatarian Strikes”
3. Dolly – Complete “The Doll Girl”
4. Unknown – Complete “Mystery Caller”
5. Seiko – CP Exchange (3 CP)
6. Akina – CP Exchange (4 CP)
7. Koizumi – CP Exchange (2 CP)
8. Shizuka – CP Exchange (3 CP)

Silver Hostesses (Complete substories around Sotenbori; Exchange Completion Points at the Shrine or find them around Sotenbori and give them gifts)

1. Erranda – Complete Errands on the Run
2. Kiyoko – CP Exchange (3 CP)
3. Junko – CP Exchange (3 CP)
4. Shiho – CP Exchange (3 CP)
5. Shinomi – CP Exchange (3 CP)
6. Akemi – Number 1 in the Hostess Map below (Purse or Wristwatch)
7. Hiroko – Number 3 in the Hostess Map below (Coat or Scarf)
8. Harumi – Collect information before going to Club Odyssey or Find her in Sotenbori, Number 5 on the Hostess Map below (Handbag)

Bronze Hostesses (Complete substories around Sotenbori; Exchange Completion Points at the Shrine or find them around Sotenbori and give them gifts)

1. Endo – Starting Hostess
2. Akemi – Starting Hostess
3. Kirara – Collect information before going to Club Odyssey or Find her in Sotenbori, Number 6 on the Hostess Map below (Boots or Sandals)
4. Ume – Collect information before going to Club Odyssey or Find her in Sotenbori, Number 7 on the Hostess Map below (Leopard Print Item)
5. Marilyn – CP Exchange (3 CP)
6. Chizu – CP Exchange (2 CP)
7. Mitsuko – Number 2 in the Hostess Map below (Ring, Necklace, or Bracelet)
8. Fusae – Number 4 in the Hostess Map below (Perfume)

Hostess Recruitment Map and CP Exchange

Hostess Map

Harumi, Kirara and Ume
If you collect all 3 bits of information before going to Club Odyssey during the main story, you will get these 3 girls after the cabaret club tutorial. If you didn’t collect any information, you won’t get any of the girls and if you collect 1 or 2 bits of information you will get 1 or 2 girls (which ones depend on which information you collect).

If you didn’t get all the information (and thus all the girls) you will have to find them on the streets and scout them.

Hostess CP Exchange

Yuki – Makeover

Accessories: Headband, Red Apple Earrings, Pearl Necklace, Pink Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Accessories: Tiara, Star Earrings, Elegant or Onyx Necklace, Rainbow Nails, Flower Ring, Simple Watch

Accessories: Tiara, Imported Sunglasses, Heart Earrings, Elegant or Onyx Necklace, Rainbow Nails, Simple Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Dress: Chinese Dress
Hair: Ponytail
Accessories: Tiara, Heart Earrings, Rainbow Nails, Flower Ring, Designer Watch

Dress: Standard, One Shoulder Dress, Sexy Dress, Lovely One Piece, Belted Bare Top, Long Halter, Chinese Dress, Bodycon Dress, Saki’s Dress or Hibiki’s Dress
Hair: Ponytail or Twin Ponytails
Accessories: Headband, Frame/Frameless or no glasses, Active Heart Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Clean/No Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Dress: Standard, One Shoulder Dress, Sexy Dress, Lovely One Piece, Belted Bare Top, Chinese Dress, Saki’s Dress or Hibiki’s Dress
Hair: Twin Ponytails, Braided, Idol Cut or Double Buns
Accessories: Tiara, Frame/Frameless or no glasses, Star Earrings (can combine others with Rainbow Nails or 100ct Diamond Ring), Elegant or Onyx Necklace, Any or Clean/No Nails, Cool or Flower Ring, Designer Watch, Onyx or Pearl Bracelet

Active Heart Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Clean/No Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

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Dress: Long Halter, Belted Bare Top, Shoulder Pad Suit, Bodycon Dress or Saki’s Dress
Hair: Hostess, Straight Long or Princess Curls
Accessories: Any or No Hair Accessory, Imported Sunglasses, Star Earrings, Chain Necklace, Rainbow Nails, Cool Ring, Gorgeous or Designer Watch, Onyx or Pearl Bracelet (or Flower with Designer Watch)

Dress: Long Halter, Belted Bare Top, Shoulder Pad Suit or Bodycon Dress
Hair: Hostess
Accessories: Bunny Girl, Imported Sunglasses, Gaudy Earrings, Chain Necklace, Rainbow Nails, Flower Ring, Designer Watch, Onyx Bracelet

Dress: Long Halter
Hair: Standard, Hostess, Straight Long or Princess Curls (Can combine others with the Imported Sunglasses)
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Imported Sunglasses, Star Earrings, Chain Necklace, Rainbow Nails, Cool Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx or No Bracelet

Dress: Long Halter
Hair: Hostess or Princess Curls (Straight Long with Red Nails)
Accessories: Bunnygirl or No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameles / Imported Glasses or No Glasses, Gaudy Earrings, Chain Necklace, Pink Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx or Flower Bracelet (or Pearl with Designer Watch)

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Dress: Sexy Dress
Hair: Curly Updo
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameles / Imported Glasses or No Glasses, Circle Earrings, Triple Necklace, Pink Nails, Heart Ring, Gorgeous Watch

Ai Uehara – Makeover

Accessories: Pearl Earrings, Chain Necklace, Red Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch

Dress: Bodycon
Hair: Princess Curls
Accessories: Bunnygirl or No Hair Accessory
Accessory, Frame/Frameless/Imported Glasses or No Glasses, Gaudy / Cross or No Earrings, Elegant or Onyx Necklace, Black Nails, Flower Ring, Gorgeous or Designer Watch, Onyx Bracelet

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Accessories: Bunny Girl, Gaudy Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Pink Nails, Flower Bracelet

Accessories: Bunny Girl, Cross Earrings, Chain Necklace, Black Nails, Designer Watch

Dress: Bodycon
Hair: Short
Accessories: Imported Sunglasses, Red Apple Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Pink Nails, Gold Bracelet

Dress: Bodycon
Hair: Princess Curls
Accessories: Imported Sunglasses, Cross Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Black Nails, Heart Ring, Gorgeous Watch or Designer Watch, Onyx Bracelet or No Bracelet

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Dress: Standard, Lovely One Piece or Chinese Dress
Hair: Standard or Ponytail
Accessories: Tiara, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Star Earrings, Elegant Necklace, Pink Nails, Flower Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Dress: Lovely One Piece
Hair: Default
Accessories: Tiara, Active Heart Earrings, Elegant Necklace, Rainbow Nails, Flower Ring, Designer Watch

Dress: Bodycon Dress
Hair: Ponytail
Accessories: Tiara, Frame/Frameless Glasses or no Glasses, Star Earrings, No Necklace, Rainbow Nails, Flower Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Dress: Deliquent
Hair: Ponytail
Accessories: Tiara, Frame/Frameless Glasses or no Glasses, Star Earrings, Triple Pearl Necklace, Rainbow Nails, Flower Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Saki – Makeover

Dress: Belted Bare Top, Long Halter or Bodycon Dress
Hair: Standard
Accessories: Gaudy Rings Earrings, Chain Necklace, Pink Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch

Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Imported Sunglasses, Elegant Necklace, Red Nails, No Ring, No Bracelet

Accessories: Frame/Frameless / Imported Sunglasses or No Glasses, Star Earrings, Chain Necklace, Red or Black Nails, Cool Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx or no Bracelet

Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Gaudy Earrings, Red Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch

Accessories: Tiara, Frame/Frameless / Imported Sunglasses or No Glasses, Red Apple Earrings, Chain Necklace, Red or Black Nails, Cool Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx or no Bracelet

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Accessories: Tiara, Red Apple Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Black Nails, Flower Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Dress: Miniskirt Dress
Hair: Standard
Accessories: Tiara, Active Heart Earrings, Elegant Necklace, Rainbow Nails, Flower Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Dress: Mini Skirt Dress, Lovely One Piece or Ai’s Dress (Can combine Cute Idol with something else to address Beauty, like the Cross Earrings or removing the Pink Nails for any other or none and using the Active Heart Earrings)
Hair: Standard
Accessories: Tiara, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Star Earrings, Elegant or Onyx Necklace, Flower Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Dress: Cute Idol
Hair: Standard
Accessories: Tiara, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Cross Earrings, Elegant or Onyx Necklace, Flower Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Dress: Cute Idol
Hair: Standard
Accessories: Tiara, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Active Heart Earrings, Elegant or Onyx Necklace, Black / Red or Clean/No Nails, Flower Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Hibiki – Makeover

Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Circle Earrings, Triple Necklace, Black Nails, Flower Ring, Simple Watch, Gold Bracelet

Accessories: Pearl Earrings, Pearl Necklace, Pink Nails, Heart Ring, Flower Bracelet

Accessories: Headband, Circle Earrings, Triple Pearl Necklace, Red Nails, Heart Ring, Simple Watch, Flower Bracelet

Accessories: Headband, Circle Earrings, Triple Necklace, Black Nails, Heart Ring, Flower Bracelet

Accessories: Headband, Circle Earrings, Red Nails, Heart Ring, Simple Watch, Gold Bracelet

Hair: Standard, Curly Updo, Short, Medium
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Circle Earrings, Triple Necklace, Pink Nails, Heart Ring, Simple Watch, Onyx Bracelet

Dress: Bodycon Dress
Hair: Standard
Accessories: Active Heart Earrings, Triple Necklace, Pink Nails, Heart Ring, Pearl Bracelet

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Dress: Standard
Hair: Standard
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Gaudy Earrings, Chain Necklace, Any or Clean/No Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx / Pearl / Flower or No Bracelet

Dress: Standard
Hair: Standard
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Gaudy / Heart / Cross / Active Heart Star / Red Apple or No Earrings, Chain Necklace, Black Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx / Gold or No Bracelet

Dress: Standard
Hair: Standard
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Gaudy / Heart / Cross / Active Heart Star / Red Apple or No Earrings, Elegant / Chain / Pearl / Onyx / Triple Pearl or No Necklace, Red Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx / Gold or No Bracelet

Dress: Standard
Hair: Standard
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Heart or Cross Earrings, Elegant / Chain / Brilliant / Onyx / Royal or No Necklace, Any or Clean/No Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Any or No Watch, Onyx / Pearl / Flower or No Bracelet

Dress: Long Halter
Hair: Standard
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Red Apple Earrings, Chain Necklace, Red Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch, No Bracelet

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Dress: Standard, Lovely One Piece or Chinese Dress
Hair: Standard or Ponytail
Accessories: Headband, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Heart or Active Heart Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Black Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Simple Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Dress: Standard
Hair: Double Buns, Twin Ponytails, Braided or Idol Cut
Accessories: Headband, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Pearl Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Black Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Simple Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Dress: Standard, Lovely One Piece or Chinese Dress
Hair: Ponytail
Accessories: Headband, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Active Heart Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Clean/No Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Designer Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Chika – Makeover

Accessories: Headband, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Pearl Earrings, Triple Necklace, Pink Nails, Clean/No Nails, No Ring, No Watch, Gold Bracelet

Dress: Standard, Sexy Dress, Long Halter or Yuki’s Dress
Hairstyle: Standard, Curly Updo, Short or Medium
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Circle Earrings, Triple Necklace, Pink / Rainbow or Clean/No Nails, Heart or No Ring, Simple, Gold Bracelet

Dress: Long Halter
Hairstyle: Standard, Curly Updo, Short, Medium, Twin Pony Tails, Ponytail or Braided
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Circle Earrings, Triple Necklace, Pink Nails, Heart Ring, No Watch, Gold / Flower or No Bracelet

Dress: Long Halter
Hairstyle: Standard, Curly Updo, Short, Medium, Twin Pony Tails, Ponytail or Braided,
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Circle Earrings, Triple Necklace, Pink Nails, Heart or No Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Pearl or Flower Bracelet

Dress: Long Halter
Hairstyle: Standard, Curly Updo, Short or Medium
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Circle Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Red Nails, Flower Ring, No Watch, Gold Bracelet

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Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Cross Earrings, Chain Necklace, Black Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch, No Bracelet

Dress: Standard, One Shoulder, Mini Skirt Dress, Belted Bare Top, Shoulder Pad Suit, Bodycon, Ai’s Dress, Saki’s Dress, Hibiki’s Dress
Hairstyle: Standard, Hostess, Straight Long, Princess Curls,
Accessories: Bunny Girl or No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless / Imported or no Glasses, Gaudy Earrings, Elegant / Chain / Brilliant or Onyx Necklace, Any or Clean/No Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx / Flower or No Bracelet

Dress: Long Halter
Hairstyle: Twin Pony Tails or Braided
Accessories: No Hair Accessory or Bunnygirl, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Gaudy Earrings, Chain Necklace, Any or Clean/No Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx or No Bracelet

Dress: Long Halter
Hairstyle: Standard
Accessories: Avant-Garde Hat, Frame/Frameless or no Glasses, Gaudy Earrings, Chain Necklace, Any or Clean/No Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous / Designer or No Watch, Any or No Bracelet

Dress: Long Halter
Hairstyle: Standard
Accessories: No Hair Accessory or Bunnygirl, Frame/Frameless / Imported or no Glasses, Gaudy Earrings, Chain Necklace, Rainbow Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous / Designer or No Watch, Onyx / Flower or No Bracelet

Dress: Delinquent
Hairstyle: Standard
Accessories: Bunnygirl, Imported Sunlasses, Gaudy Earrings, Any (Except Royal) Necklace, Red / Black or No Nails, Heart Ring, Any or No Watch, Any (Except Gold) or No Bracelet

Dress: Delinquent
Hairstyle: Standard
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless / Imported or No Glasses, Gaudy Earrings, Chain Necklace, Red Nails, Cool or No Ring, Pop Watch, Onyx or No Bracelet

Dress: Delinquent
Hairstyle: Hostess, Princess Curls, Braided or Trendy Long
Accessories: No Hair Accessory or Bunnygirl, Frame/Frameless / Imported or No Glasses, Gaudy Earrings, Any (Except Royal) Necklace, Any or Clean/No Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx / Gold / Flower or No Bracelet

Dress: Delinquent
Hairstyle: Hostess
Accessories: No Hair Accessory or Bunnygirl, Frame/Frameless / Imported or No Glasses, Gaudy Earrings, Chain Necklace, Black or Clean/No Nails, Any or No Ring, Pop Watch, Onyx / Pearl / Flower or No Bracelet

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Dress: Delinquent
Hairstyle: Double Buns
Accessories: Tiara, Frame/Frameless / Imported or No Glasses, Gaudy / Heart / Cross / Active Heart or Star Earrings, Elegant / Chain / Brilliant / Onyx / Royal or No Necklace, Any or Clean/No Nails, Heart or 100ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous / Designer / Simple or No Watch, Onyx / Pearl or No Bracelet

Dress: Delinquent
Hairstyle: Braided
Accessories: Tiara, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Heart or Active Heart Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Rainbow Nails, Heart Ring, Simple Watch, Pearl or No Bracelet

Dress: Delinquent
Hairstyle: Braided
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Red Apple Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Black Nails, Heart Ring, Simple Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Mana – Makeover

Accessories: Headband, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Circle Earrings, Triple Necklace, Black Nails, Heart Ring, Gold Bracelet

Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Circle Earrings, Triple Necklace, Clean/No Nails, No ring, Simple Watch, Gold Bracelet

Dress: Sexy Dress
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Circle Earrings, Triple Necklace or Pearl Necklace, Pink Nails, Heart Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Flower Bracelet

Dress: Sexy Dress
Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Circle Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Clean/No Nails, Heart Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Flower Bracelet

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Dress: Standard, One Shoulder, Lovely One Piece, Belted Bare Top, Chinese Dress, Shoulder Pad Suit, Delinquent, Saki’s Dress, Hibiki’s Dress or Chika’s Dress
Hairstyle: Standard, Hostess, Ponytail, Straight Long or Princess Curls
Accessories: Bunnygirl, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Star Earrings, Chain Necklace, Black Nails, Cool Ring, Designer Watch, Onyx Bracelet

Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Circle Earrings, Chain Necklace, Red or Black Nails, 100 ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous / Designer or No Watch, Onyx Bracelet

Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Circle / Gaudy / Cross / Pearl or No Earrings, Chain Necklace, Red Nails, 100 ct Diamond Ring, Designer or No Watch, Onyx Bracelet

Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Circle Earrings, Chain Necklace, Black Nails, 100 ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous / Designer or No Watch, Onyx or No Bracelet

Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Gaudy Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Black Nails, 100 ct Diamond Ring, Gorgeous Watch, Onyx or Flower Bracelet

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Accessories: No Hair Accessory, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Heart or Active Heart Earrings, Pearl Necklace, Clean/No Nails, 100 ct Diamond Ring, Simple Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Accessories: Headband, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Pearl Earrings, Elegant Necklace, Pink Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Simple Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Accessories: Headband, Frame/Frameless or No Glasses, Pearl Earrings, Brilliant Necklace, Black Nails, 100ct Diamond Ring, Simple Watch, Pearl Bracelet

Platinum Hostesses Special Training

So, I made another I spreadsheet. This one is about the special training you can do with each Platinum Hostess. Each girl has 7 dates/training sessions, after each one they get a bit of XP based on the result of the date. After the last date you unlock each platinum hostess’ substory and Gandhara video.

Five of these special trainings are basically the old dating system from previous games, where the player gets to play the protagonist talking with the hostesses and picking one of three choices to make them like you. In this game, the better your answers, the more XP the girl will get after you finish it. The other two are minigames like karaoke, disco dancing, pool or darts.

Honestly, they are somewhat useful but not that much, after the first one I always gave up the pool dates because even a perfect date usually gave each one or two levels, less than just putting on a podcast and opening the club a couple of times, and winning against them in pool is really hard since they rarely make an error so you must get all moves done perfectly.

Unfortunately, the formatting on Steam is rather simple and handmade, so I didn’t feel like doing it for every girl one by one in here. Instead I put Yuki’s below as a model and a link to the actual spreadsheet right here:

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Business Partners

Similarly to how you can partner with bussinesses in Kamurocho, Majima can partner up with certain businesses around Sotenbori by paying to get more fans in certain areas. Some others you get by making friends and completing substories. Below you have the details:

Club Mars Area

Total yen sum: ¥20.200.000
Total fans gained: 900
Fans per ¥ ratio: 1 fan per ¥22.444,444… (1☺/≈¥22.444)

Club Jupiter Area

Total yen sum: ¥61.800.000
Total fans gained: 1.500
Fans per ¥ ratio: 1 fan per ¥41.200 (1☺/¥41.200)

Club Mercury Area

Total yen sum: ¥100.000.000
Total fans gained: 2.500
Fans per ¥ ratio: 1 fan per ¥40.000 (1☺/¥40.000)

Club Venus Area

Total yen sum: ¥200.000.000
Total fans gained: 3.500
Fans per ¥ ratio: 1 fan per ≈¥57.142 (1☺/≈¥57.142)

Club Moon Area

Total yen sum: ¥700.000.000
Total fans gained: 8.020
Fans per ¥ ratio: 1 fan per ≈¥87.281 (1☺/≈¥87.281)

Gandhara’s videos

• Chika Arimura – Complete Chika’s Special Training at Club Sunshine.
• Mana Sakura – Complete Mana’s Special Training at Club Sunshine.
• Ai Uehara – Complete Ai’s Special Training at Club Sunshine.
• Hibiki Otsuki – Complete Hibiki’s Special Training at Club Sunshine.
• Saki Hatsumi – Complete Saki’s Special Training at Club Sunshine.
• Haruki Sato – Befriend Haruki through the Telephone Club.
• Ayaka Tomoda – Befriend Ayaka through the Telephone Club.
• Riku Minato – Befriend Riku through the Telephone Club.
• Marina Shiraishi – Complete the Real Estate Royale bussiness.
• Kotomi Asakura – Complete Cabaret Club Czar bussiness.
• Ryona Minami – Complete the substory “The Girl in the Video” with Kiryu.
• Kokoa Aisu – Complete the substory “Be My Boyfriend” with Majima.
• Aya Sakurai – Complete the Substory “How To Train Your Dominatrix” with Kiryu.
• Nozomi Hazuki – Befriend the chef at Komian, you will need it for the bussiness partnership anyway.
• Erika Kitagawa – Play pool three times at Vincent so you unlock Golden Ball play. You must quit after each play for it to count.
• Luka Kanae – Befriend Luka at the SEGA HI-TECH LAND on Nakamichi St with Kiryu.
• Kyoko Maki – Befriend Kyoko at the SEGA HI-TECH LAND in Sotenbori.
• Emiri Okazaki – Befriend Emiri at the Mach Bowl with Kiryu.
• Reika Aiba – Complete the substory “Sugar Daddy” with Kiryu.
• Iori Kogawa – Complete the substory “Disciple of the New Order” with Majima.
• Ai Haneda – Play any Karaoke song at Utahime where you do interjections by yourself. Ai will sing instead.
• Nao Mizuki – Complete the substory “A Watery Investment” with Kiryu.
• Yuki Natsume – Order alcohol at Maharaja in Sotenbori. You get the video once the bartender chats with you.
• Rina Ito – Complete the substory “Toilet Talk” with Majima.
• Maika – Order alcohol at Maharaja in Kamurocho. You get the video once the bartender chats with you.
• Shizuku Hasegawa – Complete the substory “Crossed Words” with Majima.
• Nanase Otoha – Befriend Officer Kikuchi in Kamurocho. You can save in the phonebooth near to him and load that save so it triggers his next conversation.
• Riri Kuribayashi – Complete the substory “From the Heart” with Majima.
• Miku Abeno – Play any Karaoke song at Heroine where you do interjections by yourself. Miku will sing instead.
• Miho Tono – Befriend Miho in the Poppo on Tenkaichi, just keep buying tissues and discarding them.

Kamurocho’s telephone cards

Chika Arimura
A Inside the Pocket Circuit Stadium, beneath the flag near Pocket Circuit Fighter.
B From the entrance to Fuji Soba, walk a few steps northeast and look in the nearby pile of trash by the side of the street.
C Behind Shellac (the east side), just next to a storm drain.

Haruki Sato
A This is in the Kamuro Shopping Area. Enter from the east side, then head north until the alley bends northwest. The card will be on the table to your left.
B At the Pier, on the left side of the water among some garbage.
C At the corner of Taihei Boulevard and Theater Square Alley, on the south side next to a cardboard box.

Ayaka Tomoda
A Travel south from Kotobuki Drugs down Pink St. Soon after you pass Nakamichi Alley on your right, you’ll find this card behind a red car.
B Look immediately to the left of the entrance to Mach Bowl. You’ll see this on a cardboard box.
C At the Pier, in the northeast corner behind some trailers.

Riku Minato
A From the save point on the east end of Senryo Ave. (southeast corner) go west along the bike rack. You’ll find it about halfway along.
B Head north from the Yoshida Batting Center. Look up for a yellow hotel sign above you. The card is in the nearby alcove.
C A few steps southwest of the Card Collector guy in Pink Alley, in a little gap between buildings.

Marina Shiraishi
A Next to the phone booth east of the Maharaja.
B On the block of buildings west of Vincent are five buildings along the north side. This one is in front of the second building from the west. Fans of the Yakuza series will recognize this as the Hot Springs.
C West of the Hotel District Taxi Stand is a barred gate. This is right in front of that gate.

Riona Minami
A From the save point southwest of the Kamuro Shopping Area, look to the southwest and spot this near a red bicycle’s front tire.
B In Orchid Palace Mahjong, at the back wall.
C This is in the little park in the northeast corner of the map, near the taxi stand.

Ayu Sakurai
A In the Yoshida Batting Center, between the video games on the right side.
B Immediately south of the Save Point at the east end of Shichifuku St.
C North from Maharaja is a little alcove with a car in it on your left. This is next to the car.

Erika Kitagawa
A Inside the Sugita Building office once you get access to it.
B On the east side of Theater Square. From the red car parked on the east side, go a little southeast into an alcove to find this.
C From Ebisu Pawn, go west, then north up the little alley to see this on the right.

Luka Kanae
A Inside Vincent on the table next to the stove.
B From Pocket Circuit Stadium, go west past a little cafe to a store with some little red stools in front of it. The card is right there.
C From the entrance of Shoten, go north two shops (past the one with a green sign) and you’ll find this in a tiny gap between buildings.

Emiri Okazaki
A Inside the SEGA HI-TECH LAND at Theater Square, near the small garbage pails in the back.
B Found in Little Asia near the north exit. You can’t get this until late in Chapter 10.
C Found in Little Asia, just south of the Save Point next to some garbage cans.

Reika Aiba
A From Earth Angel’s door, go a little southwest to the little alleyway to find this on the ground.
B Once you get access to West Park, go from the entrance a little to the east (right), then turn north (left). About halfway up the path, search on the right. You should see this just beyond the railing.
C South of the Poppo on Showa St., near the stairs down underground.

Maika
A Inside Mach Bowl, near the restrooms in the back.
B Just north of the Theater Square Save Point, next to a box with some trash in it.
C Northeast of the entrance to the Shrine, on top of a pile of garbage.

Nanase Otoha
A Start from the east entrance of the Kamuro Shopping Area. Head south down Pink St. about five or six steps. On your right near stairs leading into a business is the card on the ground.
B Once you can enter West Park, you’ll find this right next to the Save Point.
C Go south from the Shrine, then east at the T-junction. The card is right next to a lamppost at the corner.

Miku Abeno
A Inside Earth Angel, beneath the hanging TV.
B On the northwest point of Theater Square is a club with a sign that says “debolah”. This is just to the right of the entrance.
C Southwest of the Save Point in Pink Alley (near Tengokuken).

Miho Tono
A In Public Park 3 in Tenkaichi Alley, under the bench near the save point.
B From Gandhara, walk south until you see a tiny alley off to your right. The card’s lying there.
C In the Kamuro Shopping Area, near the south end of the wider street, next to a garbage can.

Sotenbori’s telephone cards

Mana Sakura
A From the northwest Save Point, go slightly into the alley to the west to find this in a corner.
B On the Iwao Bridge, in the very center on the east side.
C Go north of Club Odyssey, and check near the red vertical flag on your left.

Ai Uehara
A Just south of the northeast Save Point, tucked in an alcove.
B In the alley south of Utahime, in a corner next to two bikes.
C In the Bed of Styx, next to the left-hand pillar (facing the ring).

Hibiki Otsuki
A In the southwest part of the district is a building with a back alley. This is in the southwest corner of the alley.
B In the S-shaped alley south of the Casino, near some garbage cans.
C South of Gandhara, between a motor scooter and a potted plant.

Saki Hatsumi
A In the Casino, right next to the door.
B West of Gandhara is a place called “Hotel Travis”. Walk southwest from its entrance to find this behind a pole.
C At the southwest corner of Bishamon Bridge, next to a red flag.

Kotomi Asakura
A From the entrance to SEGA HI-TECH LAND, go southeast to a pair of blue benches. This one’s under the southern one.
B South of Mahjong Jambalaya is a building that has a back alley going around it. This is on the east side of that building, south of some bikes and beneath a grafittied poster of some guy.
C Just around the left side of the Magutako kiosk.

Kokoa Aisu
A From the southwestern Save Point, walk east to the other side of the street.
B Shortly north of the Temple area is a rectangular street sign on the ground. The card is behind the sign.
C From the Save Point on the east side of the Bunzaemon Mall, go a few steps east to find this one.

Nozomi Hazuki
A Right next to the metal stairs to Majima’s Apartment.
B From the Save Point east of Ashitaba Park, go a few steps west to find this one.
C In the northwest corner of the district, next to the Taxi.

Kyoko Maki
A In Utahime Karaoke Bar, next to the potted plant in back.
B From the entrance to Mahjong Jambalaya, head a few steps south to a pile of garbage.
C From the Save Point east of Ashitaba Park, walk a few steps north to find this behind a pole.

Iori Kogawa
A On the stairs from the Bishamon Bridge leading down to the river footpath on the north side.
B This is in the Bunzaemon Outdoor Mall, on the angled northwest corner behind a pillar.
C Southwest of the Temple, between a cylindrical tank and a beer crate.

Ai Haneda
A From the northern center Save Point, walk behind the booth and the wooden sign behind it.
B This is east of the entrance to the Casino, beneath a blue rectangular sign.
C In SEGA HI-TECH LAND, to the left of the exit next to some ashcans.

Nao Mizuki
A In Ashitaba Park, to the left of a shanty hut along the diagonal side.
B In the small alley connecting the center of Sotenbori St. to the river footpath, on the east wall near some garbage.
C Go to the right of the stairway leading into Club Mars (southwest corner of the map) look beneath the stairs.

Yuki Natsume
A From the central Save Point, go west past the notice board to find this on the other side.
B On the river footpath south of Kani Douraku, on the stairs.
C From the northwest Save Point, go south and west into a bathroom. It’s just inside.
Rina Ito A Beneath the pool table in Shot Bar STIJL.
B In the Casino, behind the Low-Stakes Blackjack table.
C East of M Store Shofukucho, behind the railing with a pile of garbage next to it.

Shizuku Hasegawa
A In Mahjong Jambalaya, head to the northwest part of the parlor, between the top-left and middle-left tables.
B From the entrance of Le Marche, go east until you reach the end of the buildings, then turn north towards the potted plants. This is next to one of the plants.
C On the south side of the river footpath, near the northeast corner of the Don Quijote building.

Riri Kuribayashi
A Near the Casino is an S-shaped alleyway. Exit out the south of that alleyway and go straight south to see this on the ground near a stand-up sign.
B From the southern Save Point (next to a taxi), go north several feet, turn to the right and into an alley to find this on the ground tucked into a corner.
C From the Temple, head south and west. Keep going west past the alley going south, then search the south wall near a cylindrical tank.

Farming cash, getting rich quick in Yakuza 0

So, this is rather straightforward. You must know who the Mr. Shakedowns are by now, they are the big special enemies that you face while walking around town and they steal all your money if they defeat you. Here is the catch though, when they defeat you they tend to multiply your money, because you can find them around the map and they will be holding MORE cash than they stole from you by a significant margin. This can allow you to defeat them once, let them defeat you and then seek revenge to get more cash back, rinse and repeat until you reach the maximum ammount of money you can hold, which is 9 TRILLION yen, more specifically 9.999.999.999.999.

Also of note, there are FOUR Mr Shakedowns in the game, two in Kamurocho and two in Sotenbori. Yet the two in Tokyo will only ever attack Kiryu and they are the ones that hold more cash. Thus, you should always farm cash with Kiryu and transfer it through Mr Moneybags to Majima.

So, here are the steps to farm them:

[OPTIONAL, but it will make your life so much easier, once you complete the Miracle Johnson
substory at Kamurocho’s Maharaja, you will gain the Encounter Finder. This is an item that you can equip beside your armour, it lets you see enemies on your minimap and find Mr Shakedown easier. The Mr Shakedown will appear as this unique purple arrow, just remember that entering buildings and/or fights with random street enemies will change their location.]

1. Go to the CP shrine and unlock the “Deep Pockets” upgrades, those allow them to hold more cash.
2. As Kiryu, buy a knife from a weapons merchant, you can unlock different types of knifes and items but their nominal damage, the number you see when you equip the item, are not important in heat actions and those are what you should be using.
3. Fill your consumable inventory with Staminan Royale or Incredible Habu Drink, you can buy those at the medicine store, you might also wanna buy some three or four bottles of Scotch in the convenience store down south of Kamurocho, near Mr Libido and a taxi.
4. Get Kiryu’s Brawler that make your heat actions stronger, specially when you are drunk.
5. Get Kiryu drunk by going to a bar and ordering until they kick you out or drinking around three bottles of scotch you bought beforehand.
6. Get your heat bar maxed out by drinking the Staminan Royale or whatever consumables you bought.
7. Now you just need to find the Mr Shakedown and enter a fight.
8. Press the button to draw the knife and immediately spam the heat action, it should cost the Mr Shakedown around a bar of health.
9. Chug your items to max heat again and keep spaming heat attacks
10. Once you have defeated the Mr Shakedown, go into a building or a random fight and he will respawn, go there and let him defeat you
11. Repeat from step 5 down to your heart’s content.

This is how the Encounter Finder lets you find Mr Shakedown

This is the weapons shop, the weapons are unlocked by Majima in Sotenbori but you can just use any simple knife

These are the are the Brawler upgrades that you will need

These are the CP upgrades you will need and where to get it

These are the medicine and the convenience store (konbini) where you can buy Staminan Royale and Scotch

Farming Mr Shakedown, getting rich quick in Yakuza 0
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Leveling up the Legend styles, Dragon of Dojima and Mad Dog of Shimano, and becoming a god

So, once you complete the bussiness related substories with each character, you unlock the Legend style. In Kiryu’s case it’s the Dragon of Dojima and in Majima’s it’s the Mad Dog of Shimano. These are the original fighting styles of both characters from previous games and, instead of unlocking new moves, the upgrades to these styles affect the power of other styles of each character.

As you can see below, there are nodes that increase the damage you incur on every hit, there are nodes that increase your health and there are nodes that increase your heat action bar/damage. So, differently from other styles, you don’t unlock moves, you actually level up each character’s overall stats. More importantly, once you buy every node, you gain a level in this style and can buy all nodes again up to level 999.

How to level up the Legend Style and transcend into godhood from which no mere mortal can face and defeat you (unless it’s a cutscene, specially if they have a gun in the cutscene)

At around level 100, you will be one shotting most enemies even in the Legend difficulty while having so much health that you health bar won’t move even as you stand there letting enemies hit you from all sides. At level 999, one punch from Beast mode can end every boss fight. So this is basically turning each character into a god, although Kiryu’s styles will always be somehow stronger than Majima in my experience.

Thus, you might also wanna level up Kiryu only to level 100 or so and then focus on Majima, it will be faster because over level 100, even in Legend difficulty, it can talk a while for you to let the Mr Shakedown defeat Kiryu, simply due to the ammount of health you get. Since it’s also faster to farm cash with Kiryu, around level 100 should be in the threshold of giving you just enough damage and health to make the farming faster and most enemies pushovers, even bosses.

Still, if you are like me and have completed pretty much every part of the game, you might want to reach that max level with both characters, and why the hell not? But it takes around 3 minutes and 50 seconds to buy all nodes required for a single level. That means around 229.770 seconds, or around 63 and a half HOURS, to level a single character from level 1 to level 999. It takes around 126 straight hours to level both characters, at that point you are putting wear and tear in your controller/keyboard and your arms.

Therefore, someone created an auto hot key script to do it automatically. If you don’t know what that means, AutoHotKey is a software that allows you to program a set of commands for your machine to reproduce. In this case, it will press the buttons necessary to buy every node and level up your character automatically.

Here is the link for the script on GitHub, where you will also find similar instructions to mine:
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Here is the link to download AutoHotKey:
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What you need to do is simple, download both of these and enter the game. You must have the Legend style nodes be all clear, id est, not have bought any for this level. If you have filled any, buy all the rest and start at the next level. Place your in game cursor over the first node on the top and alt tab to the place where you saved the script. Right click on it and then choose “Run Script”, alt tab back to the game and it will level up the set ammount of times you wanted.

Attention though, you CANNOT use you computer while the script is running. I sent a message to the original creator and he added a simple line, so you can press Esc/Escape on your keyboard and it should stop the script, but you need to leave your computer on and the game open while the script does its thing. Also, you can mess around with the number of times it levels, the standard script levels up 5 times, around 18 minutes and a half.

If you want to alter the script yourself, windows notepad or another .txt editor will suffice. But if you need some help, you can always use Visual Studio Code, it’s really handy for even beginners due to the interface and it might help you get into coding other stuff. Altering line 122 means you can change the ammount of times the script will level up the character. It’s set to five, so you will get from level 1 to level 6, but you can set it up as much as you want, just make sure that the character has the cash for it, see the explanation down below for more details.

Here is the link to download Visual Studio Code
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Finally, you can try to speed up the animations with CheatEngine to make the leveling up take about half as long. But that was the one bridge too far to me. Not only do I not want to download that, due to several reasons, I do not want to be responsible for your machine if you do it. So, I am telling you that it’s possible, but I do not suggest it unless you are already an user of it and you don’t care for its downsides.

By my accounts:
One full level costs: ¥29.480.000.000 (29 Billion, 480 Million yen)
30 full levels costs: ¥884.400.000.000 (884 Billion, 400 Million yen)
305 levels cost: ¥8.991.400.000.000 (8 Trillion 991 Billion, 400 Million yen) <- This is the maximum that you can get at once, since it exhausts all the cash you can carry.
999 levels full levels cost: ¥29.450.520.000.000 (29 Trillion 450 Billion, 520 Million yen)
999 levels full levels for both characters cost: ¥58.901.040.000.000 (58 Trillion 901 Billion, 40 Million yen)

I actually had my calculator fail on me at the final one so I did it by hand and it might be a little off but it’s more to give you guys an idea of the magnitude of this endeavour. Plus, like I mentioned above, in the getting rich quick section above, you can only carry 9 Trillion Yen (¥9.999.999.999.999) at once with each character. So you will need to stop around each 300 levels to farm more cash. That is why I suggest leveling Majima to the max first, because a level 600 Kiryu, even on Legend difficulty and no armour, takes a while to be knocked down by the Mr Shakedown.

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Closing remarks

So, this is a hodgepodge of stuff I kept trying and then writting down, it’s a bit messy but using the links you guys ought to be capable of getting an idea of what items can be combined to do what. I could probably expand more on it to polish this, but I already spent enough time as it’s and I would be surprised if a single person other than me ever reads or uses this.

Anyway, if you have a doubt about the game and I can help you, feel free to ask down in the comments. If you have something which you think ought to be added, I wouldn’t mind checking it out. Plus, feel free to rip all text and images for yourself, be it to translate or save in your PC. I would just ask for a mention or two but it’s not like it matters much. I also have a lot of public screenshots of the game in my profile, from pretty much every dialogue and minigame, so you can check those out for reference.

Also, can we acknowledge how bold of a move it was to hire AV actresses to play all of the platinum hostess apart from Yuki? The fact that we get to play dress up with them is just so freaking funny to me.